The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

a Lady Run over by a Runaway
Team at Gainesville and Danger
ously Injured-Res of the Munici
pal Elections at Athens and Forsyth
"A Steamer Sunk at cambridge.
GEORGIA.
Athens has received nearly 10000 bales o.
cotton up to date.
The Macon Volunteers have added clul
feature to their organization.
The committee has raised nearly 81 SOC
for the Young Mems Christian Association
of Rome.
Adjutant and Inspector General Kell yes
terday shipped ammunition to the Fort
Gaines Guards, and received the guns be-
longing to the Cave Springs Guards, dis
banded.
AtForsyth Wednesday IN the city election
George T. Brown was elected Mayor; j. A.
Banks, W. E. Sanders and j. A. Huddle
ston Aldermen. 1t is another Endorsement
for prohibition.
In the cooking main at Fort Gaines, Grist
was victorious. His Shawlnecks won the
MAN. Out of the twenty-one cocks, only
sixteen could be matched. Grist won nine
out of fourteen.
A countryman who was in Griffin
Wednesday proceeded TO load up with bad
whisky and late in the afternoon created q
little excitement by driving down Solomon
street and firing his pistol as he went
Near Sugar Valley Mr. Finch has been
catching some very fine beavers in his steel
traps. He brought large one i'll on last
Saturday, and it attracted almost as much
a crowd as Barnums show would have DONE
He has lost several nice beavers by the
springs of his traps breaking.
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resignation as pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Marietta. Last Sunday was the
twentieth anniversary of his ministry in
Marietta, and his farewell sermon, to the
congregation he has served so long and
faithfully, was most affecting one.
At Augusta a gang of fifteen or twenty
small negro bootblacks Wednesday night
made a raid upon the store of Joan Irb, on
the corner of Campbell and Ellis streets,
and succeeded in making off with about 100
oranges. A policeman was near at the time
and gave chase to the boys, but he did not
succeed in capturing single one.
Macon Telegraph: The water works plant
in Townsville, where the unfortunate acci-
dent occurred on Tuesday, was planned by
Mr.. A. E. Boardman, of Macon. The
Townsville Company wanted the middle
pier under the tower, and Mr. Boardman
objected and would NOT have it in his plans
The pier was put in anyhow, and the cOnse-
quence has been fearful one.
The steamer Ada sank in the Flint river,
off the cambridge landing Tuesday after
noon. Last week she ran into some barges
and stove hole in her hull, but the damage
was temporarily repaired, and the trip made
to cambridge, arriving at which port she
sank. She is lying off the landing with her
cabins under water. The boat was the
property of the Albany Steamboat and
Navigation Company, and cost s., 500.
There was no insurance upon her.
At Lexington excitement was caused by a
report that the new court house was rent in
twain from top to bottom, and was in
danger of falling down. An investigation
proved that the story originated from the
fact that a small crack appeared in the
building where the large arch is, but it does
not seem to broaden While this building
doubtless cost its full worth, and there is
serious complaint against the contractor,
the people are very proud of it, and would
not today vote to demolish it for all that it
will cost them.
Marietta Journal. The North Georgia
Conference has grown to such an immense
size that a new apportionment should be
made and a new conference created, t. be
called the Middle Georgia Conference, thus
having three territorial conferences in the
State. The body is getting so large as to be
unwieldy and of a difficult matter to be
provided for in a small town. This matter
should receive the serious consideration Of
the body in session here this week, and steps
taken to bring about this needed revision
and division of the South and North Georgia
Conferences.
At Gainesville Wednesday a two-horse
team hitched to wagon laden with cotton
seed became frightened and dashed off at
full speed. A Mrs. Wolford, from the
country, was just crossing the public square,
and before she was aware of it the team
was on her. The tongue of the wagon
struck her in the side, knocking her down.
The horses and wagon then ran over her,
leaving her senseless on the ground. There
are no external wounds except cut above
the eye, and that slight. Her injuries are
all internal, and indications now point to
fatal results. Wednesday night she was
still unconscious
AT fair near Fort Lamar, Morgan
county, few nights ago the negroes got
too much tanglefoot, and, as usual at a
holiday supper, got into a general row.
Jim Bond had stolen razor and borrowed
shoe knife which he had not returned, and
with one of these weapons cut Jim Gunnels
(colored) from near the shoulder di-
agonally across his back to his hip. DR..
oOSc Sc"cu up, SlAJSen
VIII Gunnels cut John Wooten nearly half
in two just above the waist in front. DR..
Goss sewed him up with thirteen stitches
one inch apart. Wooten will probably die,
but it is thought that Gunnels will get well.
AT Athens the municipal election came off
Wednesday after much wire pulling, caucus
meeting, etc. Mayor A. H. Hodgson was
reelected. His opponents were E. H. Dor
sey and V. W. Skiff. McKennon was
elected Alderman for the First ward His
opponents were Matthews and Mealor. For
the Second ward, w. d. Mcdowell was
elected over DIR. E. S. Lyndon. For the
Third ward, w. ID. Griffith was elected
without opposition. For the Fourth ward,
Prof. D. G. Barrow, without opposition.
DR. J. G.. Gerdine was elected on the Board
of Education from the city at large. The
colored voters of the city proved very true
to the men whom they had promised to sup
port.
Monday night two tramps stopped at J.
ID. Briscoe's store, five miles from Rome,
and asked for place to sleep. The gentle
man had tenement house standing vacant,
and, being naturally kind-hearted, he gave
the trampers permission to lodge in that
building. Some time later in the evening
Mr.. Briscoe passed by the building and dis
covered that his wayfaring dodgers were
tearing up and burning the flooring. He
stepped in and demonstrated with them
telling them they must stop their vandal-
ism or get out, and during the night the
house was burned to the ground, presuma-
bly, in revenge for the sharp talk of the
owner, forgetting the kindness he had dis